Literary Devices in Pop Culture

Poetic Elements in Songs

We've just spent some time learning The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.  We learned this poem is a ballad.  A ballad is a narrative.  Many ballads have been made into songs.  

Now we're studying song lyrics and discovering poetic elements in all of them.  

Watch this fun video then in a comment below, copy and paste the link to your blog post containing the lyrics and the poetic elements that you found. 

Hyperboles

I came across this video of hyperboles and thought it was plum full of fab examples.  Watch it, learn from it, re-watch it, share it!

TH-5 Sings Figurative Language

We're still working on publishing our figurative language dialogues but here's a fun little piece the kids whipped up after a hard days work of taping dialogues :0)

Analyzing Authors Purpose: Using Figurative Language

Click on the link to Today's Meet.  

http://todaysmeet.com/TH5Figurativelanguage

Today you will answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1.  Why do you think writers use figurative language?
2. How does the use of figurative language affect the reader?

Let's play a game of Jeopardy!  We'll practice identifying figurative language using examples from our read aloud, Out Of My Mind by Sharon Drapers.  Click on the link below to access the game.

http://equizshow.com/play/3670

Your turn, in a new blog post, find and analyze an example of figurative language in either OOMM or in a book you are currently reading.

• Quote the figurative language example and page number where it can be found.  
• Tell what type of figurative language it is (simile, metaphor, ex.) and 
• EXPLAIN what the author means, what effect it has.